History WebVideo / HowToBasic

[[http://www.youtube.com/user/HowToBasic HowToBasic]] is a bizarre Website/YouTube channel, promising to teach the basics of everyday life. However, its lessons inexplicably involve unorthodox (and often violent) methods of performing these tasks, and smashing eggs for no apparent reason. Think of it like a way crazier and ''way'' more destructive version of ''WebVideo/YouSuckAtCooking'' that tries cover a wider range of topics but [[TheHost the host]] of the show can only speak in animalistic grumbles and is probably [[DemonicPossession possessed by demons]].

!!How To Provide Examples:

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* {{Flanderization}}: How To Basic has flanderized himself over time, his videos becoming increasingly more deranged and disturbing. Whereas his earlier videos featured him simply failing to make the recipe, getting annoyed and making a mess, his newer videos are more sexually-charged, with several of them involving him playing with food suggestively, rubbing it on his body and making a lot of strange noises. The egg smashing gag also went from a once-in-a-while bit to a staple of the series.
** How To Basic has now Flanderized himself even further, becoming increasingly destructive and sociopathic.

* TheCameo: In [[https://youtu.be/JSXGagNzNLw Face Reveal]], too many to count, aside from [[WebVideo/{{Vsauce}} Vsauce's Michael]] in the initial "reveal", to the crapton of YouTubers collaborating for the second half (consisting mostly of those YouTubers proclaiming "I am How To Basic!"), including Markiplier, Anthony Fantano, Ricky Berwick, JonTron, and so on...

* MadeOfIron: WebVideo/{{MaxMoeFoe}}, whenever Mr. Basic and him crossover in Max's challenge videos. Max has been shown eating ''actual broken glass'' in the Cider Challenge, takes countless objects to the head and still keeps going, and has been forced to eat Basic's 'Krabby Patty' and survived. [[VomitIndiscretionShot He's not that good at keeping stuff down, though.]]

* TheCameo: In [[https://youtu.be/JSXGagNzNLw Face Reveal]], too many to count, aside from [[WebVideo/Vsauce Vsauce's Michael]] in the initial "reveal", to the crapton of YouTubers collaborating for the second half (consisting mostly of those YouTubers proclaiming "I am How To Basic!"), including Markiplier, Anthony Fantano, Ricky Berwick, JonTron, and so on...

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: With 10,000,000 subscribers, the channel uploads a video titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSXGagNzNLw Face Reveal]] We see a person with their face covered in two layers, slowly removing them, [[ShockingSwerve to reveal]] "Hey! WebVideo/VSauce! Michael here!" ]] [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Except]] Michael isn't How To Basic, but a guest visitor to the channel to put on a joke. After going on for a few minutes [[MindScrew as though he were serious]] and being berated by the camera man for flubbing his lines, the real creator Max Stanley ends the joke and comes out as How To Basic for real. And then the guy working the camera, Warrun, says HE's the real creator, followed shortly by several more, and then it culminates in about a hundred different YouTubers making cameos to proclaim themselves as HowToBasic.]]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: With 10,000,000 subscribers, the channel uploads a video titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSXGagNzNLw Face Reveal]] We see a person with their face covered in two layers, slowly removing them, [[ShockingSwerve to reveal]] "Hey! WebVideo/VSauce! Michael here!" ]] [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Except]] Michael isn't How To Basic, but a guest visitor to the channel to put on a joke. After going on for a few minutes [[MindScrew as though he were serious]] and being berated by the camera man for flubbing his lines, the real creator Max Stanley ends the joke and comes out as How To Basic for real.]]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: With 10,000,000 subscribers, the channel uploads a video titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSXGagNzNLw Face Reveal]] We see a person with their face covered in two layers, slowly removing them, [[ShockingSwerve to reveal]] "Hey! WebVideo/VSauce! Michael here!" ]] [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Except]] Michael isn't How To Basic, but a guest visitor to the channel. After going on for a few minutes and being berated by the camera man for flubbing his lines, the real creator Max Stanley ends the joke and comes out as How To Basic for real.]]

* IAmSpartacus: [[https://youtu.be/JSXGagNzNLw Face Reveal]] has practically every YouTuber under the Sun claiming to be HowToBasic.

The man who runs the channel, only known as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "Mr. Basic"]] (nothing else is known about him due to his mastering of the HeWhoMustNotBeSeen trope), is part of a four-man group called "The Shrimpson Boys" that engage in wild and often dangerous WittyBanter-filled antics on each others' channels. The other members of the group are WebVideo/FilthyFrank, [[https://www.youtube.com/user/maxmoefoe Maxmoefoe]], [[Creator/IDubbbzTV iDubbbzTV]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/BlackIceShredder Dolan Dark]].

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4vTZx_AtHk How To Dry A Shirt in 30 Seconds]], after [[ItMakesSenseInContext drying a shirt in 30 seconds by cooking it for 3 hours]], then punching it until it gets clean, something can be seen and heard under the shirt chirping loudly. Mr. Basic lifts the shirt up to reveal that [[spoiler:it's an adolescent duckling]].

* VomitIndiscretionShot: The end of [[spoiler:"How To Make Vegemite"]]

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[[http://www.youtube.com/user/HowToBasic HowToBasic]] is a bizarre Website/YouTube channel, promising to teach the basics of everyday life. However, its lessons inexplicably involve unorthodox (and often violent) methods of performing these tasks, and smashing eggs for no apparent reason.

Think of it like a way crazier and ''way'' more destructive version of ''WebVideo/YouSuckAtCooking'' that tries cover a wider range of topics but [[TheHost the host]] of the show can only speak in animalistic grumbles and is probably [[DemonicPossession possessed by demons]].

[[http://www.youtube.com/user/HowToBasic HowToBasic]] is a bizarre Website/YouTube channel, promising to teach the basics of everyday life. However, its lessons inexplicably involve unorthodox (and often violent) methods of performing these tasks, and smashing eggs for no apparent reason. Think of it like a way crazier and ''way'' more destructive version of ''WebVideo/YouSuckAtCooking'' that tries cover a wider range of topics but [[TheHost the host]] of the show can only speak in animalistic grumbles and is probably [[DemonicPossession possessed by demons]].